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Recock vs Recoct - What's the difference?

recock | recoct |

As verbs the difference between recock and recoct

is that recock is to cock (a firearm) again while recoct is (obsolete|transitive) to boil or cook again.

recock

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cock (a firearm) again.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 17, author=Theo Emery, title=Killed in a Duel, Then Lost in the Earth, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He recocked , fired again, and hit his adversary's abdomen. Mr. Dickinson bled to death over many hours, in terrible agony, according to accounts. }}

    recoct

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To boil or cook again.
  • (obsolete, transitive, by extension) To make over; to revamp or reconstruct.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
    (Webster 1913)